Although, well, it’s perhaps maybe a little bit more truthful maybe perhaps just a little bit to say that, two months ago, Lisa and Nicole had (made) a special treat for me.

This led to my pretense, today, that the treat is yours. After all, reading about a box filled with vegan (predominately raw) heavenliness is as wonderful as tasting a box filled with vegan (predominately raw) heavenliness, right? Right.

I think my nose just grew.

Throughout 2012, Lisa and Nicole delighted the tastebuds of many lucky Torontonians by way of their Vegan Treat of the Month Club, which entitled all who signed up to six different raw vegan desserts for only $10 every month. During my time staying with the incomparably wonderful Lisa last year, I helped make (and taste) a number of these treats, and boy. Goo-ood-oh.

Flash forward to February this year when, following my concussion, Lisa came to visit with a bright red Valentine’s Day Vegan Gift Box in her hand. It was the sweetest thing. So sweet, in fact, that I’ve had to break the review into two parts…

Also, just look at that beautiful, glossy, unblemished temepered chocolate, will you? Lisa and Nicole are chocolate wizards.

Anyone who has read my blog for a substantial period of time likely knows of my antipathy towards truffles. The simple truth is that truffles don’t float my boat.

Except when they’re these truffles. Oh. My. Giddy. Heart.

That right there, my friends, is a raw vegan dark chocolate truffle filled with a toasted caramel ganache. It tasted like the richest, silkiest, deepest ganache crossed with brownie batter, and it melted on the tongue in the same way a cloud made of ganache would melt on the tongue. Insane.

Lisa refused to give me a cheat sheet of the box’s flavours, but I believe this was a chocolate hazelnut truffle. It put Nutella to shame.

Well I’ve always been a mad truffle fan so these look just up my chocolate alley!
Heidi xo
ps chocolate alley? sorry, that was so lame.
pps. are you still planning on visiting california?!
ppps. I leave in 1 week!! :O

I like you.
Hannah xo
ps Actually, I think I’ve used that exact phrase many times before. We can be lame together.
pps. Things have been completely topsy-turvy and unknown, honestly “I have no idea where I will be in May not at all at all”, but am starting to get a bit of clarity. Will message you soon.
ppps. SO EXCITED FOR YOU I ALMOST CAN’T BREATHE. And I’m envious. That’s weird, isn’t it? Why am I envious?! 😛

Running out of time at the internship 🙁 Which means you’ll have to eat an entire second sympathy sundae for me at Sweet Ritual when you get there, okay? To make me feel better.
(This works in my head.)

It’s such a beautiful box that is so wonderfully presented it looks too good to eat. Everything looks like it’s been made with incredible skill and then there’s the flavours that to be sure, were wonderful. You have some very precious friends xx

Suspicious? Why, pray tell? Good quality dark chocolate should be naturally vegan. Although if you’re talking more about truffles, that makes sense, because of the creamy ganache thing… see, that never bother me, ’cause me no likey the truffles as a rule. 😛

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Hannah. Writer, editor, firm believer in socks, gin, laughter, buttered toast, cheesecake, and semicolons. Currently back in Canberra after two years living in Canada; heart tingling to see what happens next.